[commieneko]

You are describing a project, not the world. We break the world up into projects so we can manage them. No one has be able to come up with a way to manage the world (so far.)

The next step in understanding "the cloud" is that it is actually "clouds." Some connected deeply, other's loosely, some held in jealous, secretive isolation. There are clouds within clouds, and some clouds are outside the light cones of other clouds.

I will describe a place known as "the pit." The pit has power wires going in, and that is only out of compelling necessity. (If they could make carrying in batteries work, they would.) Equipment, data and people go in, but only people come out. The pit is a crowded place. And there is much processing of the data; decisions are made, the world changes.

We all have our own personal pits. Or least we should.